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Ensuring the food safety

Never before did the issue of safe food take the centre-stage of public discussion in a manner it has done this year. More so, because from this year, the country has decided to observe the Safe Food Day on February 02. Rallies and seminars were organised highlighting this burning issue...

SDG financing

Financing for the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been perceived as a problem ever since the UN's roadmap for global development made it to academic as well as public discourse. Economists and think tanks in the country as well as elsewhere are not comfortable with the prospect of...

A recipe for shoring up Sonali Bank

The Annual Meeting of Sonali Bank Limited, 2018 held last Sunday passed with a good deal of soul-searching and a frank exchange of views between the finance minister and the management leaving some guidelines for the troubled Bank's turn-around in the process. The proceedings were circumspect, diagnostic, prescriptive and reformative-all...

Corruption: No sign of respite

CORRUPTION has become so rampant today that existing laws of the country appear grossly inadequate to combat it. Let us create a social movement against corruption which, among other things, are depriving the majority of people of their rights and opportunities. Alongside social movement, the government should come down hard...

Strong actions against rapists needed

AN incident of rape is not new in this country or for that matter anywhere in the world. But the severity of the phenomenon in our country calls for stern action against the offenders. Most victims happen to be students and garment workers (female). Girls coming from villages work in...

Students are not learning in schools

RECENTLY, the World Bank revealed that apart from millions of children around the globe who are out of school, more than half the students at schools are not learning. The global platform is pledge-bound to ensure free primary and secondary education by 2030 which may lure businessmen to set up...